Any recommendations for window installers.

[PADDYBOY99]

I recently under took to look into building a Sun room in the Cork region. So far I have had two builders and three window companies look at the project. I have handed all drawings. This is now aproaching a month.
In all only one builder has come back to me with a price and no window companies have retrned with a price!
Has anyone had similiar experiences?
I am pricing for a shell finish and will finish the interior myself.

Has anyone recently delt with window companies that actually do give prices?

 

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[Lex Foutish]

I contacted 2 window companies in Cork about 2 months ago about doing a repair job. Both were going to come to look at it a few days later but I'm still waiting. I also contacted 2 companies about replacing a double glazed window. Again, two months later, I'm still waiting!

 

[PADDYBOY99]

I contacted 2 window companies in Cork about 2 months ago about doing a repair job. Both were going to come to look at it a few days later but I'm still waiting. I also contacted 2 companies about replacing a double glazed window. Again, two months later, I'm still waiting!

Interesting. Maybe we are in the wrong business.

I breifly caught an add on radio about sone crowd in carrigtwohill that offer windows with some super dooper low u value or the likes, but have failed to hear the complete add. Has anyone picked up on the details of them?

 

[Gervan]

Not recently, but we had double glazing fitted throughout the house in Feb 2006. The Cork Window Group, Ballincollig were efficient and reasonable. No complaints, then or since. [broken link removed]
No connection to business, just feel it was a job well done.

 

[Lex Foutish]

Interesting. Maybe we are in the wrong business.

I breifly caught an add on radio about sone crowd in carrigtwohill that offer windows with some super dooper low u value or the likes, but have failed to hear the complete add. Has anyone picked up on the details of them?

That might be C&W Windows. They're based there, according to the Golden Pages. All companies offer those kind of windows, Paddy. K-glass or low e glass has an almost invisible layer of metal on the inside pane of the double glazed window and it reflects heat generated in the house back into the room again. They cost a few bob extra but it's well worth considering if you're replacing windows.

Most companies make their own pvc, wooded etc window frames but the glass units in them are supplied by other companies like Carey Glass in Nenagh who supply most of the Irish market.

 

[S.L.F]

Most companies make their own pvc,

My understanding is that companies just cut the lengths of uPVC to size they don't actually make it.

There are a few different companies that do double glazed units the bunch I use are Glass2Glass out in Ballymount Ind Est.

 

[NHG]

Other double glazed unit manufacturers that I use in Ireland are Wexford Viking Glass in Wexford Town and Diamond Glass in Parkwest Industrial Park in Dublin whom all do the modern "A" Rated Units

 

[Lex Foutish]

My understanding is that companies just cut the lengths of uPVC to size they don't actually make it.

There are a few different companies that do double glazed units the bunch I use are Glass2Glass out in Ballymount Ind Est.

That's correct. I didn't explain it properly. They source the lengths from suppliers and cut them to make the window frames, as you said.

Many companies will tell you in their brochures the name of the company supplying them with the pvc.

 

[galwaytt]

I don't understand that at all.

We started a sunroom for a client today, and will be finished tomorrow evening (our part). The windows are coming 8 a.m. Friday - from Cork !
House in Co Galway, windows ordered 3 weeks ago.

 

[PADDYBOY99]

That might be C&W Windows. They're based there, according to the Golden Pages. All companies offer those kind of windows, Paddy. K-glass or low e glass has an almost invisible layer of metal on the inside pane of the double glazed window and it reflects heat generated in the house back into the room again. They cost a few bob extra but it's well worth considering if you're replacing windows.

Most companies make their own pvc, wooded etc window frames but the glass units in them are supplied by other companies like Carey Glass in Nenagh who supply most of the Irish market.

Ya the quoted was " it would be between 2 and a half and three and a half grand"!